Garment hanger



March 29, 1949.\ G, E, COLBURN 2,465,576

GARMENT HANGER Filed June 5, 1947 gmc/YM Patented Mar. 29, 1949 UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE GARMEN T HANGER Application June 3, 1947, Serial No. 752,095

1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in collapsible garment hangers, the principal objects of which are to materially simplify the construction of such appliances and minimize the eiort of collapsing and assembling the parts thereof.

With the above and other objects in View as will be hereinafter apparent, the invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings lke characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views, and:

Figure 1 is a side elevation or face view of a collapsible garment hanger as constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary top view of the apical portion of the improved hanger with the hook removed.

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary face View of the apical portion showing the parts scattered or disassembled.

Figure 4 is an elevation of the hook as seen when in a certain position.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary View of one of the shoulder sections as seen from beneath.

The invention is particularly adapted for garment hangers of wooden construction. Such collapsible hangers conventionally consist of complemental shoulder sections or pieces which are usually separably united at the apex of the body by a rabbet joint, a spacer or brace bar which spans the extremities of the two shoulder pieces and removably enters conforming retaining recesses or sockets therein, and is commonly used for draping the trousers portion of the garment, and a hook which is a conventional part of such appliances and which further serves to lock the two shoulder pieces together.

In its present embodiment the invention consists of the complementa] shoulder pieces I9 and I2 which for use are united, as aforesaid, by a rabbet joint, the tongue I3 of the piece Ill and the tongues I4 and I5 of the piece I2 being Vertically drilled so that the holes I6, Il and I8, respectively, thus drilled fall in alignment or registry when the parts are together.

These holes have in common opposed grooves 20 extending in depth crosswise of the hanger,

2 but in addition to these grooves common to all the tongues the hole I8 of the tongue I5, which is the lowermost tongue of the section I2, has opposed grooves 2l extending in dep-th longitudinally of the hanger. The grooves 2|, however, terminate well short of the upper surface of that particular tongue in which they are found.

The wire hook 22, except for a flattened portion 23 at the foot or lower extremity of its straight stem 22a, may well be of conventional design, Axially, the stem or shank of the hook conforms to the holes I6, Il and I8 and the ilattened portion or key 23 conforms to the grooves 20.

When the shoulder pieces have been placed together so that the tongues interlock to form the rabbet joint, the brace rod I9 having been rst put into place, the hook 22 is attached by thrusting the stem 22a down through the aligned holes of the tongues until the key 23 extends beyond the bottornmost tongue. In order to thus insert the hook stem the hook obviously must be turned to fall crosswise of the hanger since the key is parallel in plan to the hook proper and the grooves or keyways 2B extend in their depth also transverse of the hanger.

Subsequently the hook is given a quarter turn on the axis of its stern and is nally pulled upwardly so that the key ascends into the grooves 2| and there remains. Thus the parts of the hanger structure are firmly assembled and the hook is in proper position for suspending the hanger. Obviously the reversal of the foregoing operation collapses the parts for packaging.

There has thus been provided a simple and efficient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that minor changes may be made in the form and construction of the invention without departing from the material spirit thereof. It is not, therefore, desired to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described, but it is desired to include all such as properly come within the scope claimed.

I claim:

In a collapsible garment hanger, a pair of separable shoulder pieces having intertting ends, one of said shoulder pieces having a tongue projecting laterally substantially midway of the ver- 3 tical extent of its intertting end, the other shoulder piece having a pair of tongues providing a slot substantially midway of its vertical extent and closely embracing said rst tongue when assembled whereby to hold said vertical ends against vertical displacement, said tongues having vertical drill holes alining with each other when the shoulder pieces are assembled, said drill holes having lateral extensions forming opposed grooves extending throughout their length and the lowermost tongue of the pair of tongues having other opposed grooves at its lower part at right angles to the rst grooves, and a hook having v ashank tting in said drill holes and having a.

The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Polkko Aug. 18, 1925 Number 

